Order Of Leopold – First Class In Gold Archive with a copy of a

with a copy of a letter from General H

Second Lieutenant

but he returned to duty in the following month

This mixing of crowns and crosses is well known practice of Austrian Order Chancellery and evident on many Austrian Orders

but rose to senior rank in the 1939-45 War as Deputy Chief of Public Relations at S

Order Of Leopold – First Class In Gold Archive with a copy of aOrder of Leopold Cross First Class, by Rothe, in Gold and enamels, 40. 5mm (x80mm including crown suspension); crown measures 39. 4x44. 8mm; minor enamel repair to crown and the cross, in good very fine condition. Cross and the crown although both made by Rothe, have different markings, and are of different period manufacture; crown has a mark 750 FR (for period 1867 72), while the cross have a mark on eyelet FR and Gemsenkopf A (for period 1872